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Bridging the divide

jecornel
jecornel Member Posts: 9,737
Is there any path towards uniting this country in any manner? It seems beyond repair.

Any ideas to change the trajectory of this nation? Is there a silver lining of hope? I know hope is a dangerous word.

What is priority #1?
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    I mean the best way to "unite" is to stop watching the news and go about your daily life.

    You may have to fire a bunch of shitty people and hire new ones every once in a while but you can't expect democrats to behave.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 25,605 Standard Supporter
    Stop caving to the far left SJW losers. They're mentally ill and divisive. They're way more powerful than the far right freaks. Anyone who can't see that is a moron.

    Stop caving to big pharm and for that matter most major corporations. Stop covering for China.

    That probably solves 80% of it.
  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,006 Standard Supporter
    edited August 2021
    Can anyone name one right that Trump took away. Damage that he did to anyone's right to earn a living? Anything that he forced on people to mold or shape their beliefs? How about forcing anyone to talk, think, act like he wanted them to act? Did he ever support politicians who wanted to make our communities less safe? Did he ever open up our borders and allow illegal aliens into the country to infect us with Covid? Did Trump go around the world apologizing for America?

    Neville Chamberlin and much of the world historically ignored the "differences of opinion". Many of our own country's leadership ignored Germany. Rats aren't nazi's, but ignoring what they would do if they had carte blanche is the absolutely wrong thing to do. They have literally told us what they would do and in many cases they have acted on it. Not only have they acted on it they have lied to the American people about their actions.

    When one side would gladly take away your rights you don't ignore that. They literally are trying to force everyone who is white into re-education classes so that we can all learn how racist we are. They are teaching our children that this country isn't a great country because of things that happened centuries ago. They have illegally opened the border and are shipping illegal aliens all around the country so that elections will always go the rats way. They literally want to defund the police and use liberals as their "policing" force.

    As long as this shit is going on and is being supported by people I know, there is no real friendship and we should never ever get along politically. I can get along socially with anyone and I never bring up politics unless brought up first by a rat, then it is game on.
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662

    Can anyone name one right that Trump took away. Damage that he did to anyone's right to earn a living? Anything that he forced on people to mold or shape their beliefs? How about forcing anyone to talk, think, act like he wanted them to act? Did he ever support politicians who wanted to make our communities less safe? Did he ever open up our borders and allow illegal aliens into the country to infect us with Covid? Did Trump go around the world apologizing for America?

    Neville Chamberlin and much of the world historically ignored the "differences of opinion". Many of our own country's leadership ignored Germany. Rats aren't nazi's, but ignoring what they would do if they had carte blanche is the absolutely wrong thing to do. They have literally told us what they would do and in many cases they have acted on it. Not only have they acted on it they have lied to the American people about their actions.

    When one side would gladly take away your rights you don't ignore that. They literally are trying to force everyone who is white into re-education classes so that we can all learn how racist we are. They are teaching our children that this country isn't a great country because of things that happened centuries ago. They have illegally opened the border and are shipping illegal aliens all around the country so that elections will always go the rats way. They literally want to defund the police and use liberals as their "policing" force.

    As long as this shit is going on and is being supported by people I know, there is no real friendship and we should never ever get along politically. I can get along socially with anyone and I never bring up politics unless brought up first by a rat, then it is game on.

    Omg didn't read
    Fuck you
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    Also didn't read. Fuck you
  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,662
    Are you shitting me? Who writes novels on a message board
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Didn’t read. Fuck you.
  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,681 Founders Club
    Off social media, cut loose all those highschool friends you don’t give a shit about.

    Get to know all your neighbors, know everyone on the block, invite over for dinner etc, nobody hates nearly as much in person. Everyone makes sense in their own mind and context, understand everyone who will spend the time to explain.

    Join hobby groups in your community, keep building a network of likeminded people.
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    Of you have a beer with TKS be sure and be prepared to pay the tab. Because his wallet isn’t coming out.
  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,785 Swaye's Wigwam
    Change your political party.

    Find one that is not in power, meaning abandon the Democratic and Republican Party. Get them out of power. The media collapse will follow amid the confusion.

    That would be a good start. Should have been a lawyer joke in there because the previous statement is the punchline.

    My best friend is a union loving, Biden voter, liberal SOB that hates Trump and everything he stands for - when I am feeling kind of feisty it is very easy to push his buttons. Kind of fun
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,058 Founders Club
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    As much as I appreciate the sentiment we really are fighting real authoritarianism at this point. People who openly discuss packing the Supremes and ending the filibuster aren't interested in "governing through unity".

    Punish the shit out of anyone that shits on core American values that used to be what we ALL agreed on. Shout out to Joe Manchin, I'd vote for that kind of adult in the room.

    You do that by having beers and organizing with people in your community. By becoming politically active even if it's ugly. By starting local and starting small. It has to start with people that inherently will buy in though.
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    I wonder how you find common ground with blithering idiots like this

    Kobe as an adult?
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 23,897
    I’d like to buy the world a Coke.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,556 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    No. I can't stand people who hate this country and love to lie. I couldn't stand two minutes with the dazzler and the flea. You are assuming they are good people. They are not. It is people like them that have destroyed the country and literally put millions of people out of work. They are happy about that. I'm not.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,556 Standard Supporter
    dflea said:

    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    No. I can't stand people who hate this country and love to lie. I couldn't stand two minutes with the dazzler and the flea. You are assuming they are good people. They are not. It is people like them that have destroyed the country and literally put millions of people out of work. They are happy about that. I'm not.
    No worries - I wouldn't be around a cunt like you for two minutes anyway, bitch. Swaye and I could fish all day and it would be kick ass because neither one of is such a cunt that we have to drag fucking politics into EVERY conversation all the time and act like every difference of opinion is a life and death struggle. You're a fucking drama queen and a drippy fucking cunt.

    I'm going to laugh when you die. You should do it soon, ya miserable cunt.
    Like I said. I can't stand people who hate this country and love to lie and be lied to. At some point, an adult needs to be an adult.
  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam

    dflea said:

    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    No. I can't stand people who hate this country and love to lie. I couldn't stand two minutes with the dazzler and the flea. You are assuming they are good people. They are not. It is people like them that have destroyed the country and literally put millions of people out of work. They are happy about that. I'm not.
    No worries - I wouldn't be around a cunt like you for two minutes anyway, bitch. Swaye and I could fish all day and it would be kick ass because neither one of is such a cunt that we have to drag fucking politics into EVERY conversation all the time and act like every difference of opinion is a life and death struggle. You're a fucking drama queen and a drippy fucking cunt.

    I'm going to laugh when you die. You should do it soon, ya miserable cunt.
    Like I said. I can't stand people who hate this country and love to lie and be lied to. At some point, an adult needs to be an adult.
    I hate you, not the country, you self-important cunt that thinks you and the country are one and the same. You're not. You're just some worthless waste of skin that leaks from your drippy cunt all day and likes the Oregon Ducks.

    Just the Duck fan part makes you an America hater. Clearly.

    Fuck off.
  • WestlinnDuck
    WestlinnDuck Member Posts: 17,556 Standard Supporter
    You voted for Cho Bai Den. That's how much you love this country. Keep playing for the away team.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,129
    edited August 2021
    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    Some are even guilty of it here. They enjoy arguing with the people they hate so much.

    I live in Washington. Of course I know tons of very liberal people. Many are friends. My closest work acquaintance is a huge corona bro. He’s a cool guy outside of that bullshit.

    I also know many people that don’t give a fuck about anything other than going to work and having a good time.

    I will say that I often meet someone that seems cool in real life, but there social media obsession with every hot topic political issue is a huge turn off.
  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,006 Standard Supporter
    edited August 2021

    Can anyone name one right that Trump took away. Damage that he did to anyone's right to earn a living? Anything that he forced on people to mold or shape their beliefs? How about forcing anyone to talk, think, act like he wanted them to act? Did he ever support politicians who wanted to make our communities less safe? Did he ever open up our borders and allow illegal aliens into the country to infect us with Covid? Did Trump go around the world apologizing for America?

    Neville Chamberlin and much of the world historically ignored the "differences of opinion". Many of our own country's leadership ignored Germany. Rats aren't nazi's, but ignoring what they would do if they had carte blanche is the absolutely wrong thing to do. They have literally told us what they would do and in many cases they have acted on it. Not only have they acted on it they have lied to the American people about their actions.

    When one side would gladly take away your rights you don't ignore that. They literally are trying to force everyone who is white into re-education classes so that we can all learn how racist we are. They are teaching our children that this country isn't a great country because of things that happened centuries ago. They have illegally opened the border and are shipping illegal aliens all around the country so that elections will always go the rats way. They literally want to defund the police and use liberals as their "policing" force.

    As long as this shit is going on and is being supported by people I know, there is no real friendship and we should never ever get along politically. I can get along socially with anyone and I never bring up politics unless brought up first by a rat, then it is game on.

    Omg didn't read
    Fuck you
    Hey buttercup, no one asked you to read anything. Do you FEEL better about drawing attention to yourself now? What a needy little bitch.
  • PostGameOrangeSlices
    PostGameOrangeSlices Member Posts: 27,192
    SFGbob said:

    I wonder how you find common ground with blithering idiots like this

    Kobe as an adult?
    Kobe has to be pushing 40
  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072

    Swaye said:

    HuskyJW said:

    Turn off your phone….internet isn’t real. 48 hours minimum….96 is better. Laugh when you check back in

    Fire up the grill. I didn’t say plug it in….or turn the knob. Fire….up…..the….grill

    Go fishing

    Thank HuskyJW

    This would go a long way. The other thing is to stop actually hating the other side. Dislike their positions, sure. Loathe their existence? Might be a bit much. And I am a known asshole saying this.

    Look, do you think @dflea and I agree politically? Um, no. But would that stop me drinking and fishing with him? Um, no. Hell I'd have a beer with @HHusky even though I think he is half retarded most of the time. Doesn't seem like a terrible human to me, just a snarky misguided lawyer. Whatever. The only person here I actually dislike is Bearswiin, because he seems like a smarmy fuck beta, but I know a couple folks here who have met him and swear he's a good dude. So fuck, I might even not throat punch him?

    The point, and this is terrible to say in the Thunderdome, is to not take this stuff so seriously. I mean yeah, it's important, but actually wanting the other side to die is extreme. I get it, political tribalism is a big thing now, but the intense antagonism is over the top. All this excludes Antifa and the Aryan Nation - both sides have fringe lunatic groups whose sole aim is to hurt people to advance their kooky agenda. Fuck those guys. We can napalm all of them.

    edit: We all know none of this is going to happen. The modern media is in business to inflame passions then step back and act aghast when mobs beat people and shit burns. Gets clicks.
    As much as I appreciate the sentiment we really are fighting real authoritarianism at this point. People who openly discuss packing the Supremes and ending the filibuster aren't interested in "governing through unity".

    Punish the shit out of anyone that shits on core American values that used to be what we ALL agreed on. Shout out to Joe Manchin, I'd vote for that kind of adult in the room.

    You do that by having beers and organizing with people in your community. By becoming politically active even if it's ugly. By starting local and starting small. It has to start with people that inherently will buy in though.
    My President tells me this is Terrorism.

    How long have You been a Terrorist?